The Far Right Recoils

Hewitt, spluttering because Obama has not adopted the neoconservative view of the Middle East:

The world is the worse for this speech because it was not honest
about the situation in the Middle East, not honest about the threat
from Iran, not honest about Israel's deep desire to be allowed to live
in peace, and not honest about the determination of Hamas, Hezbollah
and Iran to destroy Israel and to gain the weapons necessary to do so
in an instant.

No speech so deeply dishonest in its omissions or
so rhetorically misleading its its assumptions and arguments can do
anything other than communicate extraordinary weakness on the part of
the United States. It will indeed be a famous speech, for all the
wrong reasons.

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